Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Les Sillars. http://vlt.tc/2n7c “Every so often the mainstream media establishment is shocked to find itself guilty of completely misunderstanding the American public, caught napping in an intellectual bubble of its own making. Usually these embarrassments prompt a short-lived round of hand-wringing and little else.

After George W. Bush’s re-election in 2004, some editors assigned reporters to the “conservative beat.” When they misunderstood the rise of the Tea Party in 2010, they promised to get out more often into the hinterlands. “Now some admit they failed to grasp the level of populist rage at elites and especially the news media that led to Donald Trump’s election. One New York Times columnist observed that “it was clear that something was fundamentally broken in journalism.”

Figuring out flyover country will take more than assigning a few reporters because “flyover country isn’t a place, it’s a state of mind.” “Aside from the fact that the phrase “flyover country” reflects the sort of deep condescension that angers so many conservatives in the first place, he is, as tiger/philosopher Hobbes might put it, stumbling toward the perimeter of wisdom. “It’s not just that so many mainstream journalists are out of touch, it’s that so many share foundational beliefs about the nature of God, humanity, and reality—in short, they share a worldview. That’s why sending their current staff into Arkansas once again to interview a couple of yokels and thereby plumb the depths of the red-state American soul just isn’t going to work. “If mainstream editors had some foresight, they would start finding and cultivating journalistic talent who can think outside their bubble. The point would not be to seek out conservatives merely to balance out liberal bias (even if they were prepared to admit bias, and most aren’t). They need journalists with the intellectual firepower—and the will—to recognize and respect the range of reasonable worldviews among their potential readers and viewers. They need reporters who can see society clearly and report on it in a fashion that doesn’t anger half their potential audience. "

Ridiculous? Naïve? Maybe, but I wish mainstream editors would at least try this approach. It made The New York Times the most respected newspaper in the world for decades. When Tennessee publisher Adolph Ochs, desperate for cash at the time, bought a struggling little paper in 1896, in his first issue he wrote: “It will be my earnest aim that THE NEW-YORK TIMES give the news … impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect, or interests involved; to make the columns of THE NEW-YORK TIMES a forum for the consideration of all questions of public importance, and to that end to invite intelligent discussion from all shades of opinion.”

That Times never quite lived up to Ochs’ ideals, but he did provide a sensible alternative to the obnoxiously sensational “yellow press” or “new journalism” of William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal and Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World. It took years before the Times became wildly successful (nothing the paper did was all that wild) but he found the journalists who could pull it off.

“The Times set the standard for the modern American journalistic ideal of “objectivity” and outlasted papers that chased readers with what we’d today call click-bait. Twenty-five years later, an admiring editor at another paper wrote that eventually Ochs taught his yellow competitors that “decency meant dollars.”

“Many of my conservative friends will regard me as nuts for suggesting a mainstream news revival might be a good idea. Many conservatives long ago dismissed the networks (outside Fox) and major papers as beyond redemption. Clearly, they seem unlikely to change. They have little incentive to accommodate people who seem to despise them, while years of harsh critiques have hardened them more than prompted serious self-reflection. The nation’s largest newsrooms have not merely blown off conservative criticism, many have doubled down on their liberal bias. “It was a mistake, because their business models depend on speaking to entire communities and even the nation. Once upon a time, so did their rhetoric.” ---

Sunday, November 6, 2016

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton walk in to a bar.Donald leans over, and with a smile on his face, says,

“The media is really tearing you apart for that Scandal.”Hillary: “You mean my lying about Benghazi?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “You mean the massive voter fraud?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “You mean the military not getting their votes counted?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “Using my secret private server with classified material to Hide my Activities?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “The NSA monitoring our phone calls, emails and everything Else?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “Using the Clinton Foundation as a cover for tax evasion, Hiring Cronies, And taking bribes from foreign countries?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “You mean the drones being operated in our own country without The Benefit of the law?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “Giving 123 Technologies $300 Million, and right afterward it Declared Bankruptcy and was sold to the Chinese?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “You mean arming the Muslim Brotherhood and hiring them in the White House?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “Whitewater, Watergate committee, Vince Foster, commodity Deals?”Trump: “No the other one:”Hillary: “Turning Libya into chaos?”Trump: “No the other one:”Hillary:
“Being the mastermind of the so-called “Arab Spring” that only brought
chaos, death and destruction to the Middle East and North Africa?”Trump: “No the other one:”Hillary: “Leaving four Americans to die in Benghazi?”Trump: “No the other one:”Hillary: “Trashing Mubarak, one of our few Muslim friends?”Trump: “No the other one:”Hillary:
“The funding and arming of terrorists in Syria, the destruction and
destabilization of that nation, giving the order to our lapdogs in
Turkey and Saudi Arabia to give sarin gas to the “moderate” terrorists
in Syria that they eventually used on civilians, and framed Assad, and
had it not been for the Russians and Putin, we would have used that as a
pretext to invade Syria, put a puppet in power, steal their natural
resources, and leave that country in total chaos, just like we did with
Libya?Trump: “No the other one:”Hillary: “The creation of the biggest refugees crisis since WWII?”Trump: “No the other one:”Hillary: “Leaving Iraq in chaos? ”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “The DOJ spying on the press?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “You mean HHS Secretary Sibelius shaking down health insurance Executives?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “Giving our cronies in SOLYNDRA $500 MILLION DOLLARS and 3 Months Later they declared bankruptcy and then the Chinese bought it?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “The NSA monitoring citizens’ ?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “The State Department interfering with an Inspector General Investigation on departmental sexual misconduct?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “Me, The IRS, Clapper and Holder all lying to Congress?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “Threats to all of Bill’s former mistresses to keep them quiet?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary:
“You mean the INSIDER TRADING of the Tyson chicken deal I did where I
invested $1,000 and the next year I got $100,000?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “You mean when Bill met with Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, just before my hearing with the FBI to cut a deal?”Trump” “No, the other one.”Hillary: ” You mean the one where my IT guy at Platte River Networks asked Reddit for help to alter emails?”Trump” “No, the other one.”Hillary: “You mean where the former Haitian Senate President accused me and my foundation of asking him for bribes?”Trump” “No, the other one.”Hillary:
“You mean that old video of me laughing as I explain how I got the
charges against that child rapist dropped by blaming the young girl for
liking older men and fantasizing about them. Even though I knew the guy
was guilty?Trump” “No, the other one.”Hillary: “You mean that video of me coughing up a giant green lunger into my drinking glass then drinking it back down?”Trump” “No, the other one.”Hillary: “You mean that video of me passing out on the curb and losing my shoe?”Trump” “No, the other one.”Hillary:
“You mean when I robbed Bernie Sanders of the Democratic Party
Nomination by having the DNC rig the nomination process so that I would
win?”Trump” “No, the other one.”Hillary: “You mean how so many people that oppose me have died in mysterious was?”Trump” “No, the other one.”Hillary:
“Travel Gate? When seven employees of the White House Travel Office
were fired so that friends of Bill and mine could take over the travel
business? And when I lied under oath during the investigation by the
FBI, the Department of Justice, the White House itself, the General
Accounting Office, the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee,
and the Whitewater Independent Counsel?”Trump” “No, the other one.”Hillary:
“The scandal where, (while I was Secretary if State), the State
Department signed off on a deal to sell 20% of the USA’s uranium to a
Canadian corporation that the Russians bought, netting a $145 million
donation from Russia to the Clinton Foundation and a $500,000 speaking
gig for Bill from the Russian Investment Bank that set up the corporate
buyout?. That scandal?”Trump” “No, the other one.”Hillary: “That time I lied when I said I was under sniper fire when I got off the plane in Bosnia?”Trump” “No, the other one.”Hillary:
“That time when after I became the First Lady, I improperly requested a
bunch of FBI files so I could look for blackmail material on government
insiders?”Trump” “No, the other one.”Hillary:
“That time when Bill nominated Zoe Baird as Attorney General, even
though we knew she hired illegal immigrants and didn’t pay payroll taxes
on them?”Trump” “No, the other one.”Hillary:
“When I got Nigeria exempted from foreign aid transparency guidelines
despite evidence of corruption because they gave Bill a $700,000 in
speaking fees?”Trump” “No, the other one.”Hillary:
“That time in 2009 when Honduran military forces allied with rightist
lawmakers ousted democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya, and I
as then-Secretary of State sided with the armed forces and fought global
pressure to reinstate him?”Trump: “No, the other one.”Hillary: “I give up! … Oh wait, I think I’ve got it! When I stole the White House furniture, silverware, when Bill left Office?”Trump: “THAT’S IT! I almost forgot about that one”.

Vote for Hillary and get this guy too! Worse
yet, he is in line to be President if something happens to Hillary!
Amazing she could select this guy as her VP.. isn't it..

This
man is a bad, bad, bad guy masquerading as a "Catholic". Breitbart has
reported that Clinton?s V.P. pick Tim Kaine is among the top
anti-Israel senators. He is the top recipient of PAC funds from George
Soros's anti-Israel group, J Street. He distinguished himself as one of
eight senators to walk out on Benjamin Netanyahu's historic speech to a
joint session of Congress warning against the Iran nuclear deal.
Kaine's record on the Islamic threat here in America is far, far worse
than that.

In
exchange for campaign contributions, he appointed a radical jihadi to
the Virginia Immigration Commission. Esam Omeish runs a group described
by federal prosecutors in a 2008 court filing "as the overt arm of the
Muslim Brotherhood in America." Omeish is the V.P. of a radical mosque
that had the al-Qaeda operative Anwar Al-Awlaki as its imam and two of
the 9/11 hijackers and Nidal Hasan, the perpetrator of the Fort Hood
shooting, in the congregation. Omeish is still a board member, even as
he serves on the Virginia Immigration Commission. Omeish was also
chairman of the board of a New Jersey mosque with terrorist ties,
including an imam whom the Department of Homeland Security wants to
deport for having links to Hamas. As if that weren't enough, Omeish
pledged in a video to help Palestinians who understand that "the jihad
way is the way to liberate your land."

When
a state delegate wrote a letter to then-Governor Kaine warning him that
the MAS has "questionable origins, "a Kaine spokesperson said the
charge was bigotry. Kaine also has close ties with Jamal Barzinji, whom
the Global Muslim Brotherhood Watch describes as a ?founding father of
the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood.?

He
first came on to the FBI's radar in 1987-1988 when an informant inside
the Brotherhood identified Barzinji and his associated groups as being
part of a network of Brotherhood fronts to "institute the Islamic
Revolution in the United States."

The
source said Barzinji and his colleagues were "organizing political
support which involves influencing both public opinion in the United
States as well as the United States Government using "political action
front groups with no traceable ties."

Barzinji
played a major role in nearly every Brotherhood front in the U.S. and
was vice president of the International Institute of Islamic Thought
(IIIT), which came under terrorism investigation also.

What
is truly chilling about Kaine's association with known terrorists is
that the indictment of Al-Arian says the jihadist's strategy was to
"seek to obtain support from influential individuals, in the United
States under the guise of promoting and protecting Arab rights."

The
quotes about Brotherhood operative Barzinji's aspirations to use civil
rights advocacy as a means to influence politicians are especially
relevant when you consider that video from the event honoring Barzinji
shows Kaine saying that it was his fourth time at the annual dinner and
thanked his ?friends? that organized it for helping him in his campaign
for lieutenant-governor and governor and asked them to help his Senate
campaign.

Like
Hillary, Tim Kaine's affection for jihadists is a quid pro quo: he
gives them cover and appointments to positions of power, and they give
him money.

The
PAC has very strong ties to the Democratic Party in Virginia, with
almost $257,000 in donations. This likely explains why Barzinji's
grandson served in Governor McAuliffe's administration and then became
the Obama Administration's liaison to the Muslim-American community.

The
Middle East Forum's Islamist Money in Politics database shows another
$4,300 donated to Kaine's Senate campaign in 2011-2012 by officials from
U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entities. Another $3,500 came from Barzinjis
IIIT organization.

The
New York Sun sees Kaine as one of the few senators who fully backed the
Obama-Hillary Middle East disaster, including the open disrespect and
hostility to our ally, Israel.

Can
it be a coincidence that of all the millions of Americans Secretary
Clinton could have picked as her running mate, she chose, in Senator
Kaine, one of the eight Democrats who boycotted Prime Minister
Netanyahu's address last year to a joint meeting of Congress. Not a
chance. It's one marker of the fact that for all Mrs. Clinton's
protestations of support for the Jewish State, it would be a fool's
wager to count on her when the chips are down.

Hillary's
choice of Tim Kaine reveals her intentions as president to continue the
Obama policy of promoting the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran and betraying
Israel. The choice of Kaine also reveals Hillary's reckless disregard
for homeland security. She has chosen a man who is willing to cozy up
to well-known terror-promoters here in America in exchange for cash.

The
media wants us to think Donald Trump is dangerous. This is the face of
danger: Clinton-Kaine, importers of jihadi terror to America.

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